Catie Curtis

Catie Curtis delivers her most personal effort to date with Long Night Moon, an intricate work of stripped down modern folk. With grace and confidence, a more mature Curtis mingles reflections on motherhood (“New Flowers”), cold New England winters (“Hey California”) and delayed gratification (“Long Night Moon,” a song written about waiting for the belated arrival of her adopted baby daughter) with the unflinching dedication to social issues that has long characterized her strongest work.

Long Night Moon features the track “People Look Around” for which Curtis (along with co-writer Mark Erelli) was honored with the Grand Prize in this year’s International Songwriting Competition (out of 15,000 entries from 82 countries). “People Look Around” addresses the human toll and the divisive political landscape that arose in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.